Rhinolophus imaizumii

J. Edwards Hill & Yoshiyuki, 1980

Imaizumi's Horseshoe Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Pteropodiformes
Superfamily : Rhinolophoidea
Family : Rhinolophidae
Genus : Rhinolophus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Hill, J.E. and Yoshiyuki, M. 1980-09-22. A new species of Rhinolophus (Chiroptera, Rhinolophidae) from Iriomote Island, Ryukyu Islands, with notes on the Arabic members of the _Rhinolophus pusillus_ group. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo (A)6(3):179-189.

Original name as described

Rhinolophus imaizumii

Type material

NSMT-M 21231

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Otomi-do cave, Iriomote I, Yayeyama Is, Ryukyu Is, Japan.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Japan

Taxonomy notes

considered a subspecies of R. perditus following HMW, but the species is tentatively distinct following Wu et al., 2012 and Cirranello & Simmons Bat Database

Taxonomy notes citation

Wu, Y., Motokawa, M., Harada, M., Thong, V. D., Lin, L. K., & Li, Y. C. (2012). Morphometric variation in the pusillus group of the genus Rhinolophus (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) in East Asia. Zoological science, 29(6), 396-402.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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